The Earths Magnetic Poles will reverse .

The sky is falling...again? **** and I had my car all paid off, too.

Will I need a new compass, or can I just relabel the old one?

You cn be just as lost with old or new.

The sky wont be falling, technically. It ill blow off into space.

OK but tell me...is that a better show on the 7pm news or is it the fire down the street? Hmmmm? Decisions, decisions!

How long have we got?

I feel, that once the reversal gets rolling, itll be 7 oclock news stuff every day.

MILLIONS OF PEOPLE GET SKIN CANCER

ATMOSPHERE WONT SUPPORT LIFE ABOVE 3000FEET

SKY AN UNUSUAL RED COLOR

MILLIONS MORE DIE BY SUFFOCATION

MILLIONS MISSING IN SWITZERLAND AND COLORADO.

ACCORDING to Several researchers (what a gig they cant lose- Like the "Shipping NEws"

if they are correct-"Planet Threatened by polar reversal"

If they are not--"Planet spared effects of polar Reversal"


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Back to your question. They say itll happen anywhere in the next few thousand years and may take anywhere from a thousand to 20000 years to get er done.

Damn. I'm gonna miss it.

Farmerman this is a common and recurring event in earth history if my memory service me correctly, without googling , with no known correlation with great dies outs.

You haven't seen the man made face on Mars? That proves there were die outs. Just ask gungasnake.

We don't have to worry fm.. God will just punish with a worldwide flood that will replenish all the water we lost.

We are not really certain of the mwechanism involved in such reversals. As it turns out , 2 of the big 5 extinction events were also correlated to a polar reversal at the same (geologic) instant. That has led to the theory that polar reversals are associated with deep welling of magma and new vulcanism (These are possibloe events that trigger the poles to wander more quickly than our present speed of 50Km /yr).
Magma upqwelling releases a competing pole and e lose our dipole for a period of time. (It may be that because magma upwelling can break outr on the surface, this apparent association of magama and polar reversals may only be an artifact, not a cause and effect.

So, with 2 of the big 5 extinctions associated with polar reversals (as qwell as incresed vulcanism), the die outs may not really be related anyway.

HOWEVER, sea creatures , like radiolarians ARE very susceptibloe to polar changes and, instead of dying out, they merely evolve into a form that reflcts the change of the poles. (Most radiolarians have thee tint shells with unique twists and patterns)

We use radiolarians as key indicators for oil exploration

will this impact my Dish network, if it ain't one damn thing, it's another.

It is once more my understanding that such a change is over in only a few thousands years so I can not see any great lost of atmosphere in that time frame let alone our water.

Bill's older than dirt.

One often overlooked benefit of magnetic pole reversal is that it spontaneously corrects all detrimental affects of global warming resulting in people living happily ever after. Nobody knows why this happens.

Party pooper

okay, so I shouldn't liquidate all my assets just yet.